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It's time again to post this #IceAge masterpiece - one of the highlights of our archaeological collections: The marvelous head of a cave #lion carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. Small-sized (H. 2.1 cm) but superbly detailed. From the Vogelherd Cave on the...1/2

🚨Insects are disappearing and it is a huge biodiversity loss! 🦋🐝🪰 Find out more ⬇️ #ForNature #Biodiversity #Insects source: Sanchez-Bayo & Wyckhuys, Biological Conservation 2019

Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way (down to the molecular level). An analysis revealed that 200 genes had independently changed in the same way and this is an extreme example of convergent evolution [read more: ow.ly/xkfk30nysHa]

The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede—as big as a car—has been found on a beach in the north of England. The fossil—the remains of a creature called Arthropleura—dates from the Carboniferous Period, about 326 million years ago [read more: buff.ly/3qbNY8N]

Did dung beetles feed on 🦕’s dung? Check it here! Our paper Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution is finally out 😊 Sergei Tarasov 🇺🇦 Michele Rossini Giulio Montanaro Federica Losacco Nicole Gunter frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Thank you Liam Revell for the fantastic workshop. I learned a lot about how to use my tree and data to infer evolutionary processes, and how to fit and interpret my models in the best way. The 4 days have inspired me to work more with phylo comp methods

Diversity of damselflies

I am so greatful to had the opportunity to present my research on the evolution of metabolic allometry in Odonata this week at #ICO2023 on Cyprus. A week of amazing research talks with many leading experts in Odonatology. And Cyprus‘ nature is so unique

Nature research paper: A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology go.nature.com/45c3u7G

Very happy that our new phylogeny with analyses of the causes of Latitudinal Diversity Gradient (LDG) in pond damselflies and their relatives (superfamily Coenagrionoidea) is now out in Society of Systematic Biologists! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance… 1/

You are welcome to join my talk tomorrow at #Evol2024 in Montreal to lean more about how to investigate ecological diversification in complex study systems based on integrative approaches